Hello:
As an effort to avoid installing the same packages (like latex, emacs, gnuplot..) everytime I do a fresh install of a Linux distro, I decided to create a Fedora spin to cater the users who use Linux as their main workstation to help them in their research.
I see from [1] that a Fedora "Spin for Science" is in the Ideas section. However, the SciTech mailng list seems deactivated at the moment and hence I had some discussions on the Release Engineering mailing list [2].
At this point of time, here is what I have (based on the suggestions by Bill Nottingham): An updated 'comps-f16-xml.in' whose current version is at [3] and based on that a possible kickstart script[4].
Any thoughts/comments/suggestions appreciated.
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/SciTech [2] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/rel-eng/2011-June/012301.html [3] https://bitbucket.org/amitksaha/custom_linux/src/c94686fe43fe/comps-f16.xml.... [4] https://bitbucket.org/amitksaha/custom_linux/src/c94686fe43fe/fedora-live-sc...
Cheers, Amit
On , Amit Saha droidery@gmail.com wrote:
Hello:
As an effort to avoid installing the same packages (like latex, emacs,
gnuplot..) everytime I do a fresh install of a Linux distro, I decided
to create a Fedora spin to cater the users who use Linux as their main
workstation to help them in their research.
I see from [1] that a Fedora "Spin for Science" is in the Ideas
section. However, the SciTech mailng list seems deactivated at the
moment and hence I had some discussions on the Release Engineering
mailing list [2].
At this point of time, here is what I have (based on the suggestions
by Bill Nottingham): An updated 'comps-f16-xml.in' whose current
version is at [3] and based on that a possible kickstart script[4].
Any thoughts/comments/suggestions appreciated.
[2] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/rel-eng/2011-June/012301.html
[3] https://bitbucket.org/amitksaha/custom_linux/src/c94686fe43fe/comps-f16.xml....
[4] https://bitbucket.org/amitksaha/custom_linux/src/c94686fe43fe/fedora-live-sc...
Cheers,
Amit
Amit, I would be keen to help with this spin. The SciTech SIG seems to be dead making it a little difficult for scientists to find common ground on the project.
Andrew
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:51 AM, andrewnixon0@gmail.com wrote:
On , Amit Saha droidery@gmail.com wrote:
Hello:
As an effort to avoid installing the same packages (like latex, emacs,
gnuplot..) everytime I do a fresh install of a Linux distro, I decided
to create a Fedora spin to cater the users who use Linux as their main
workstation to help them in their research.
I see from [1] that a Fedora "Spin for Science" is in the Ideas
section. However, the SciTech mailng list seems deactivated at the
moment and hence I had some discussions on the Release Engineering
mailing list [2].
At this point of time, here is what I have (based on the suggestions
by Bill Nottingham): An updated 'comps-f16-xml.in' whose current
version is at [3] and based on that a possible kickstart script[4].
Any thoughts/comments/suggestions appreciated.
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/SciTech
[2] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/rel-eng/2011-June/012301.html
[3] https://bitbucket.org/amitksaha/custom_linux/src/c94686fe43fe/comps-f16.xml....
[4] https://bitbucket.org/amitksaha/custom_linux/src/c94686fe43fe/fedora-live-sc...
Cheers,
Amit
Amit, I would be keen to help with this spin. The SciTech SIG seems to be dead making it a little difficult for scientists to find common ground on the project.
Thanks Andrew for your interest. It should definitely be an interesting addition to the fedora spin community.
-Amit